CAD Outsourcing Services

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CAD Outsourcing Services We Provide

AutoCAD structural drafting covers everything from simple detail redrawing to complex multi-sheet drawing packages produced from engineer's sketches and calculations. Our drafters are experienced with structural drawing conventions — section marks, detail bubbles, revision clouds, standard title block formats — and produce clean, professional output.

As-built drawing production is a common requirement that often gets backlogged when project teams move on to the next job. We take field redlines and survey data and update drawings to accurately reflect what was actually built. As-builts produced from our team are clearly marked, properly revised, and delivered in a format your clients and facility managers can use.

PDF to CAD conversion is a service we provide for firms that have historical drawing archives in PDF format and need working CAD files. We produce accurate CAD recreations from PDF drawings, either as pure vector line work or with intelligent linework that organizes geometry into meaningful layers.

Drawing format and standard conversion — converting drawings from one CAD standard, title block, or drawing format to another — is something we handle efficiently. When firms merge, rebrand, or take on work in a new market with different drawing requirements, we manage the conversion of the drawing archive.

Dedicated detailer arrangements provide a named detailer or small team who is allocated to your account on a regular basis. This person learns your standards, understands your project types, and becomes an effective extension of your team. Communication is direct and responsive. For firms with consistent ongoing workload, this is a cost-effective and relationship-based way to outsource.

Revision management and drawing control — maintaining drawing registers, processing revision changes, updating superseded drawings — is an underestimated part of project documentation. We manage this systematically so your drawing set stays current and traceable.

How Our CAD Outsourcing Relationship Works

We start every new outsourcing relationship with a short setup phase. We review your CAD standards, drawing templates, layer naming conventions, and typical output formats. We ask questions about your review and approval process, your file naming system, and how you prefer to receive finished work.

This setup investment — usually a few hours — means that when we produce our first drawing for you, it looks like it came from your office. Line weights, text styles, title block information, North arrows, scale bars — all matching your standards.

Work flow is straightforward. Your engineer or project manager sends us the input — sketches, calculations, reference drawings, marked-up PDFs — and a brief description of what's needed. We confirm our understanding, produce the drawing, and send it back for review. Comments are incorporated, and the final drawing is delivered in your required format.

Confidentiality is always protected. We operate under NDA for all client work as standard. We don't share project information between clients and we treat all input data as confidential.

Why Engineering Firms and Fabricators Choose Us for CAD Outsourcing

Cost is an important factor. Our outsourcing rates are significantly below the fully-loaded cost of an in-house drafter when you account for salary, benefits, equipment, software licenses, and management overhead. For project-based work, the cost comparison is even more compelling — you pay for productive hours worked, not for downtime between projects.

But cost isn't the only reason firms work with us. Turnaround time matters. When a project engineer needs a drawing for a client meeting tomorrow morning, having a team in a different time zone working while you sleep can be very useful. We regularly turn around urgent requests within 24 hours.

Quality matters too. Our drafters aren't generalists learning structural drawing as they go — they've been drawing structural steel, concrete, and facade details for years. That experience shows in the quality of the output and in the reduction of comments and revisions needed.

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